In a true collaboration of image and sound, the viewer experiences a visceral symbiosis of technology, organisms…
QUEERMENT QUÉBEC
BIZARRE (BIZARROÏDE)
A playful and humorous universe of film conceals metaphors linked to the filmmaker’s difficult past in this mise en abyme…
ENCOUNTERS / AMOUR
BÉSAME (KISS ME)
A mischievous teen explores an empty beach house until he gets caught by the object of his desire.
EN DEVENIR / BECOMINGS
BEAUTIFUL THEY
Violet and Blue’s youth collide in an early morning toke that leads to the ocean, where connection stirs…
GÉNÉRATIONS
BREATHE
A visual short coming of age story of young boy Bram discovering his sexuality.
EN DEVENIR / BECOMINGS
COSBOI
A genderqueer experiments with their identity, accompanied by a Greek Chorus of TikToks...
MADE AU CANADA
CRUISE NIGHT
While car enthusiasts line the sidewalks on Sunday night to watch jacked up rides cruise down Portage Avenue, a different kind of cruising…
EXPRESSIONS
DECOHERENCE
Two men look for healing in each other in the aftermath of a traumatic event. Told through the urgent and visceral language of dance…
QUEERMENT QUÉBEC
DÉRIVE DIASPORIQUE
Dérive diasporique is an audio-visual essay on the year I thought I was going to die, the year of the Tokyo Olympic Games. The date is delayed…is my death as well?
EXPERIMENT/ATIONS
DO US ART
A man commits a crime inspired by a piece of art, seeking eternal love.
EN DEVENIR / BECOMINGS
DWARF PLANET
Based on the short story Concealer by Andy Boreham, Dwarf Planet tells the story of a teenager and his encounter with…
ENCOUNTERS / AMOUR
ET TU CHERCHES QUOI DE BEAU ICI? (I SHOULD FEED MY CAT)
In Brussels, a man looks for connection.
DOCUMENTS
FERNÁNDEZ PRATSCH
Unique, free, eccentric and uncensored: this is Serafin, a Spaniard who, during the Franco regime, went into exile in Germany, seeking freedom. Sixty years later…
EXPRESSIONS
FOUR PILLS AT NIGHT
With a film to shoot in the near future, a director develops something more than a professional bond with his actor. When they go together to a rave party…
GÉNÉRATIONS
FROM X TO Z
A cranky Gen X butch is forced to spend time with a disaffected Zennial who seems to represent everything that bugs her about “kids today”.
INDIGIQUEER / VOIX AUTOCHTONES
GIFT TO GIVE
A Two-Spirited daughter discovers she is a perfect kidney donor for her ailing father. By gifting a piece of herself, she hopes to save his life and gain his acceptance for who she truly is.
INDIGIQUEER / VOIX AUTOCHTONES
GRAND MOTHER TONGUE
Grand Mother Tongue pairs poetry, spoken in Plains Cree, and breath with the intimate imagery of strawberries being consumed bite-by-bite,..
EN DEVENIR / BECOMINGS
HALF
Half-Jewish, bisexual Jonah Dorman comes out to his girlfriend, shaking the foundation of their relationship and launching a tragicomic exploration of love and religion in New York City.
DÉCLARATIONS
HOW NOT TO DATE WHILE TRANS
A break-the-fourth-wall dark comedy, How Not To Date While Trans follows the dating life of a black trans woman and the problematic men she meets along the way.
QUEERMENT QUÉBEC
LÈVRES BLEUES (BLUE LIPS)
Using synthetic images, the gorgeous animation, Lèvres bleues (Blue Lips) reconstructs the memory of a loving moment.
INDIGIQUEER / VOIX AUTOCHTONES + GÉNÉRATIONS
LULLABY
Lullaby is a documentary essay about coming of age and the power of the unconscious. In the continuity of “Sweat Lodge song”, this short film is a message of courage and hope.
EXPRESSIONS
MAKE ME A KING
Ari performs as a Jewish Drag King, much to the confusion of their family. Idolizing real-life hero, Pepi Littman, who carved out a space for Drag Kings over 100 years ago…
EXPRESSIONS
MEMOIRS OF THE (NON) EXISTENT ME (MEMÓRIA DE QUEM (NÃO) FUI)
Marina’s death transforms her past into heritage. Her memoirs and the portrait of her identity are hostage in a dispute…
INDIGIQUEER / VOIX AUTOCHTONES
MÉTIS FEMME BODIES
Métis Femme Bodies is an exploration into the experiences of what has become a repressed identity in both Indigenous and femme forms…
MADE AU CANADA
MONA
In a small Acadian city in New Brunswick in 2005, young drag queen Mona is auditioning for America’s Next Top Model. Through the gaze of her camera operator best friend…
EXPERIMENT/ATIONS
OB SCENE (OB SCENA)
A personal and sexual diary. A fake user’s manual whose sophistication and audaciousness free it from the traps of what has to be said and the agenda of commonplace…
EXPERIMENT/ATIONS
ONCE I PASSED
Based on the poem of the same name by Walt Whitman, Once I Passed is dedicated, on one hand, to the obviously autobiographical context with all its personal drama…
ENCOUNTERS / AMOUR
OÙ VONT LES SONS (WHERE DO THE SOUNDS GO)
Five friends meet on Skype on the initiative of a sixth, which is slow to appear. Little by little, we discover…
MADE AU CANADA + QUEERMENT QUÉBEC
PARVIS
A look within Laurie’s journey, throughout a night out with friends, to embrace her identity.
EXPRESSIONS
POWER CHORD
After 20 years apart, the former members of riot grrrl punk band, Vagina Dentata gather to rehearse for a one-night-only charity reunion show. But with all the history…
SÉRIES WEB / EPISODICS
SEXFLUENCING
Sexfluencing is an auteur romantic comedy web-series about the dating experience of Milan, a London-based bisexual vlogger. The highly sexy, highly entertaining…
INDIGIQUEER / VOIX AUTOCHTONES
SEXY HIGHLAND STREAM
Written in both English and Anishinaabemowin, Sexy Highland Stream is a spoken word poem and a love letter to the beauty found in nature.
QUEERMENT QUÉBEC
TENDREMENT (DEARLY)
Olivia can feel her relationship slipping away. As she still has a strong desire and tenderness for Julie, she chooses to keep her feelings quiet during the romantic weekend…
DOCUMENTS + DÉCLARATIONS
THE BLACK VEIL
Bradley is non-binary – but is aware that this identity is not fully recognized by wider society. Bradley has two events approaching: their wedding and their ordination as ‘Black Veil’…
QUEERMENT QUÉBEC
THE END
Even in a very sweet virtual world the end of patriarchy seems impossible. A call to keep fighting.
ENCOUNTERS / AMOUR
THE FIRST GOODBYE
A woman downloads an app that helps connect her to her estranged wife for a brief time.
EXPERIMENT/ATIONS
THE GUY ON THE BED
News from another pandemic, the one that ‘changed everything’ before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly infected, or those who…
EXPRESSIONS
THE MAN OF MY DREAMS
Two magnetic lovers traipse around the city streets in a dreamy romance.
DÉCLARATIONS
THE PISS WITCH
Tired of the comments about her body, Clare learns the power of rebellion from the village witch.
EN DEVENIR / BECOMINGS
THEY/THEM
A day in the life of Silas – a young queer trans person who is trying to navigate home life, life in the queer community, and figuring out their pronouns.
INDIGIQUEER / VOIX AUTOCHTONES
THIS IS THE WAY WE RISE
This is the Way we Rise is an exploration into the creative process, following Native Hawaiian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio…
MADE AU CANADA + GÉNÉRATIONS
TOE THE LINE
Gloria is a closeted teenage hockey player. When she’s not on the ice, she’s got a guitar in her hands. Her mother Nancy, a stylish Hong Kong woman, spends sleepless nights…
ENCOUNTERS / AMOUR
UN CORPS BRÛLANT (A FREE RUN)
Lina and Inès do not know each other. From roof to roof, from low wall to fence, the two teenagers observe each other from a distance and try to get closer…
EN DEVENIR / BECOMINGS
WAVE
Tender memories of a first gay embrace, of shock, exhilaration and disavowal animated against the waves of a deep blue lake.
INDIGIQUEER / VOIX AUTOCHTONES
WE ARE NOT SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE
Thinking back on her only phone call with her maternal grandmother, Danika explains her connection…
DOCUMENTS
نِضال NIDHAL
Nidhal is a young queer Tunisian who defended individual freedoms in Tunisia through his radio work. Between reality and animation…
MADE AU CANADA
A SEPARATE PEACE
Comprising five hundred images McFadden assembled to investigate the nature of homosocial and queer male relationships, A Separate Peace includes…
QUEERMENT QUÉBEC
[ÊTRE]
[Être] was a thrift shop and underground screening space in Montreal’s Mile-End. Being inside [Être] was being hermetically sealed-off with a proliferation of objects…